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Th Acton Free Wednesday June 21 Last motorman on defunct radial interested in railway museum The official opening of the remembers when they Halton County Radial Railway stop at the Blue Springs side museum on Sunday June outside Acton fish and gather holds more than passing Interest watercress from the spring for Bill and his wife creek But there were not many Fenten was the on opportunities for pleasure The the last passenger car of the old rntl Government orders Toronto suburban Hallway such as any railroad They had to which left Guelph In the late be accurate summer of ending an wnen Important chapter In his life and trainmen pulled Jokes on the an era of railroading wouldbe passengers such as If it hadn been for the five leaving amorous Georgetown swains standing on the Acton radial railway which fanned out station platform by running from Tomto passing through through five minutes early And Streetsvllle Georgetown Acton viceversa for Acton swains In and Eden Mills BUI Fenten Georgetown would have a Place to work 1 Never met his wife he recalls nostalgically There 2 Missed a lot of fun were a lot of good tunes and Jokes Never rescued a late night passengers fisherman from Fairy Lake plus a host of other things retired rail way hands like to discuss among Bufltlnim One night when he was helping to repair the big bridge the span that bridged Fairy Lake he and a companion decided to go fishing Somehow his companion supped into the waters of Fairy The old Toronto Suburban line was built in 1917 and it planned to extend it as far as Kitchener War and depression Intervened Cars on the line depended on a power source of 1 volts to them going in the electric which grew abundantly at the spot I had to pull him out of the water with the winch he recalls with a grin Radial romance It was through the radial line BILL FENTEN AND HIS WIFE the former Mary examine the timepiece that used to regulate radial cars on the old Toronto Suburban itailway working order railway era It still took about also that he met his wife the two hours to go from Toronto to former Mary of Acton Coles Photo Whiting deplores cancelled tax aids In a speech in the House of Commons last week Halton MP Bud Whiting told the house he deplored the cancellation of the three per cent reduction in personal income tax Whiting said that in his visits to on the weekend many people mentioned In conversation that the middle income group must continue to carry the chief burden of taxation I during a debate on John Turners As a beneficiary I would first budget expect Ford to heed the advice Whiting dwelt on the reduction given by the finance minister at to per cent in corporation tax his budget conference and get out and how it is expected to and hustle to grow to compete maintain the buoyancy of the and to build Jobs for Canadians economy Whiting Indicated Ford It is expected to defuse the intended to be a viable Canadian threat to Canadian production as enterprise and quoted the a result of protectionist moves by company a president as saying he our trading partners he said Intended to meet the import The fast writeoff of challenge and do it with on the line because there were 90 passible stops Charter trips on express vehicles on the same line made the same distance in a little over an hour BUI says It was difficult to reach top speed in the cars because the track rarely had straight stretches Average speed on a run would not be any more than to miles per hour It was possible to reach miles per hour on the few straight stretches of road and there was still power to spare Interviewed by the Free Press this week Bill The radial romance began while Miss travelled home to Acton from Toronto whore she worked It bloomed Just like summer business on the radial It wasn long until they were married Summer was the busy time on the old radial line with large picnics being ferried to Eldorado Park near Huttonvillc Wehad to run multiple units explained Bill Fenten The railway was a subsidiary of the CNR so the cars were rented from the parent company and turned back at the end of the Mr when he worked on the old radial cars handle weekend traffic The often had to do About 1953 the group known as two Jobs and con- the Ontario Electric Railway ductor Under this system Historical Association chose a developed a real rapport with site along the old road bed in passengers and crew and made township for their friendships which still exist electric railway museum After He remembers that the radial 18 years of preparation they will cars were controlled by a system have an official opening Sunday June freight runs picked up J long the route and Slivered It IrT Toronto Among SL J JX contracts were fiSnSSfSiRjtiS Provincial western half of the He tuSpaZn Eden Mills and cool from Acton conducted There was a milk train once a Starting this Sunday It will be almost as if the Toronto returned the empties Milk from Suburban Railway had been the Ontario Reformatory at resurrected on its own road bed was picked up and Veteran especially delivered to Ontario hospitals In those with experience on the line Toronto such as Bill will be Cars cause demise keenly interested when the The radial line became electric cars are running again In profitable when the number of wn bed motor cars Increased and came Perhaps the old radial cars within reach of the average were ahead of their time mans The once Nowadays they d be called GO flourishing business closed the stations and retired trains In present collection at the were torn up a few years jjiter composed of old streetcars The Acton station situated lust I de cars and cars south of the MainChurch St to those that ran on the corner was converted into a real dence as were many of the Toronto Hallway others along the route Some of J the stops were merely passenger kiosks erected for Kluded In the are protection against the weather frurban cars from London These were either dismantled or M left to the elements ems wUI te Wr operational The bed of the railway quarters of a mile of track Presently cars are inoperative Saturday and Sunday this would be expanded to two to unattended became over Fall fair dates Ontario Ministry of Agriculture Sept 5 and Food has published a booklet London Western Fair Sept to all members of the equipment and machinery la resources Every Import sold in deplore that the finance minister has seen fit not to continue this tax benefit beyond Its expiry date reasoning is simply that there are many things that we as a country cannot afford and this is one of them Door not closed Whiting Indicated the minister had not closed the door and could review the tax situation before the end of the year Whiting spoke Harold R Bunny Hare Harold R Bunny Hare who was the first agricultural representative In Halton died suddenly at Oshawa Hospital Saturday May He had lived at Craydon Rd In Whitby Mr Hare was the husband of Elisabeth Masters and the late Pearl Graham father of Mrs Bradford Lorraine of Niagara Falls New York Mrs Jean of and John Hare of Winnipeg and brother of Mrs Knight of Grafton Mr Hare in his year Funeral service held in Whitby and interment at Cemetery in Grafton Mr Hare opened the first agricultural office In In 1914 and left in the fall of to go overseas In May of he returned to Canada expected to maintain the this country Jeopardizes buoyancy of our economy and Canadian jobs and tax revenue stimulate further investment Lower prices within the secondary effect the budget protects a manufacturing industry very large and important The result of such stimulus on segment of Canada Halton which houses a manufacturing industry It bourgeoning secondary protects Jobs and it protects a sector employing more loss of corporate tax revenue than 18 people can be of the MP said immense importance Whiting called for a decrease in Influences prosperity prices or automobiles In view of He cited Ford Motor Company the tax concessions He quoted of Canada Ltd as a major the Financial Post as saying It beneficiary of the budget He is now very much up to business indicated the firm employed 7 especially manufacturers to people throughout the county and respond to the sizeable tax Influenced the prosperity of the Incentives with substantially county more competitive prices listing fall fair and agricultural society dates for 1972 Here are some In this area also major attractions Aberfoyle Sept 23 Acton Sept 16 Ancaster Sept 22 to 24 Arthur Sept Bame Aug to Sept 16 Bolton Sept 23 24 Brampton Sept Durham Sept 16 17 Sept to 4 Erin Oct to Fergus Sept 15 16 Gait Sept to 10 Georgetown Sept 30 Grand Valley Sept Hanover Aug Sept Sept 21 Kitchener Aug to Sept Milton Sept Mount Forest Sept Or Sept 4 Ottawa Central Canada Aug to Oct to Oct 7 to Canadian Notional Exhibition Toronto Aug to Sept lloyal Winter Fair Toronto Nov 10 to 18 International Plowing Match Sept to NOTICE Re July 1st Holiday Most Acton Retail Stores will be Closed Saturday July 1st Retail section of 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